Colleges for brainwashed zombies

LIKE many parents, I’m busy helping my daughter apply for university.

She is a sparky, free-thinking soul, which worries me. After all, so many of our universities have become places where all original thought is bullied out of you under pain of cancellation.

I don’t want my feisty girl to turn into a brainwashed zombie, victim of what one (very brave) Cambridge philosophy professor, Dr Arif Ahmed, last week dubbed ‘the New McCarthyism’. He’s absolutely right.

University should be about expanding the mind, not narrowing it.

Otherwise you might as well do something useful.